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People often wonder and ask about the differences between having a blog on WordPress.com and having a blog through WordPress.org. I recently watched a video interview with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. He gave a very unique, yet fitting analogy that I really liked, and wanted to capture in this post where I attempt to explain some of the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. He basically equated the differences between the two to renting an apartment versus owning a house. When you rent an apartment, you...

Succeed To Lead Designed by UC Web Creations in partnership with BYTEsize Marketing. Succeed To Lead help business and government agencies alike with wise solutions to the problems facing organizations, large and small. Visit them at SucceedToLead.com for more information about who they are and what they do! They already had a website, but it was an html-based website, and BYTEsize Marketing contacted us to recruit our expertise in converting this site to a modern, responsive, WordPress-based design. We’re very proud of the...

HouseForSale.UCWebCreations.com Designed by UC Web Creations. This is a mobile responsive demo site featuring a single property for sale by owner. We did something a little different in addition to the regular pages you’d expect from a website: the home owner can choose to either lead people to the full website, or to a single page that showcases the property information, including photos, and even a way to contact the owner via email, simply by going to HouseForSale.UCWebCreations.com/forsale instead of the main URL. We’re very...

Today’s big news (March 6th, 2014) is that Getty Images is making their expansive library of award-winning professional photographs and illustrations available for everyone to use for free (for non-commercial purposes). This is big news for bloggers as finding royalty-free images to use in blog posts can sometimes become a hassle. Images are a very important aspect of blog posts, so this is definitely important news to be aware of! A picture is definitely worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, and it helps to break up text on a...

WPGal.com Designed by UC Web Creations. This is our own blog, run by Ursula Comeau who is also known as The WordPress Gal. Recently re-designed with an HTML5-based, responsive Genesis WordPress theme, it is the home of WP Gal’s WordPress...

Common-Grounds-Cafe.com Designed by UC Web Creations in partnership with More Power Marketing. The Common Grounds Cafe is a little café based in Middleburg, Pensylvannia in the United States. Looking to re-design the website, More Power Marketing partnered with UC Web Creations to provide the café with an updated responsive design for their website, while staying within their budget. We’re very proud of how this project turned out! Feel free to visit Common-Grounds-Cafe.com and have a look around! I can tell you that designing the site...

Cosmetics.DrWilderman.com Designed by UC Web Creations. After completing Dr. Wilderman’s website for his medical clinic in Toronto, he asked if we could also re-design his cosmetics website to make it look more attractive. He wanted to have a WordPress-based website so that his staff could more easily update the content themselves without always having to contact a web designer to make those types of changes. He had very specific ideas of what he wanted, including the WordPress theme he wanted to use, so we customized it, added the...

DrWilderman.com Designed by UC Web Creations. Dr. Wilderman contacted us, asking to have his website re-designed with a new, modern look and feel. He wanted to have a WordPress-based website so that his staff could more easily update the content themselves without always having to contact a web designer to make those types of changes. He had very specific ideas of what he wanted, including the WordPress theme he wanted to use, so we customized it, added the initial content, including articles and images, and we provided training to his staff...

GimmeSomeSugarBakery.ca Designed by UC Web Creations. The Gimme Some Sugar Bakery is a small home-based bakery in Ottawa specializing in cupcakes and other sweets for special occasions. Gimme Some Sugar Bakery needed not only a website, but also a logo and Facebook branding images. Working with the owner, we developed the logo, the website, and created a Facebook Timeline cover based on the website’s design to keep the overall branded look of the business. This bakery is definitely ready to expand, now that these things are in place!...

MichaleBuckingham.com Designed by UC Web Creations. Michael Buckingham runs Holy Cow! Creative, and he also wanted to re-design his personal blog to be responsive. It was already a WordPress-based blog, but not mobile-friendly at the time. He already had very specific ideas of what he wanted, including the theme he wanted to use, with some customizations needed, so we delivered! Feel free to visit his blog – he definitely posts interesting...

Holy Cow! Creative Designed by UC Web Creations. Holy Cow! Creative approached us, wanting to have their existing non-responsive, flash-based website updated to a responsive, non-flash WordPress-based site. They had very specific ideas of what they wanted, including the theme they wanted to use, with some customizations needed, so we delivered! We’re proud of how this project turned out as we were develop the site into exactly what the client...